Adebayor has fallen down the pecking order at Manchester City and spent the second half of last season on loan at Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Redknapp has previously spoken of his interest in landing the 27-year-old to bolster his firepower - but says any deal would not be a permanent transfer.
He told Sky Sports News: "Adebayor is a name that's been thrown at me since I've been here but I think the club, we were looking maybe to loan him, that was as far as that one had gone.
"So I don't see a permanent deal being in any shape or form for Adebayor, I think it was just we were looking to get him on loan for a season.
"But where that's at, again the chairman (Daniel Levy) is dealing with that back home so I'm not sure.
"And other than that we really, I couldn't give you any names because we haven't got too many.
"It's difficult when you've got good players - we've got lots of good players - to improve on them, so finding players better than we've got is difficult."
Source: Team Talk
Source: Team Talk